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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A They elevate their social status by proving they are not racist.
B They are less likely to divorce because of deeper intimacies with their husbands.
C They lose some racial privilege through their relationships with their husbands.
D They are less likely to become mothers, because of their fears for their children.
Question #2
A Canada
B Denmark
C Sweden
D Norway
Question #3
A racial passing
B racial assimilation
C population transfer
D cultural assimilation
Question #4
A It will help train poor people to use technology.
B In online interactions, there is no way to see what other people look like.
C It lets corporations gather large amounts of data about individual consumers.
D It will make the economy more efficient, thus generating more wealth for all.
Question #5
A passing.
B prejudice.
C discrimination.
D pluralism.
Question #6
A Even the structure of families is dependent on race.
B The employment structure of inner cities has collapsed.
C Race can have an effect on health.
D Race is an interactional accomplishment.
Question #7
A They feel that the men they encounter are less likely to offer the advantages that make marriage worth the risk.
B They come from a culture of poverty that does not value marriage.
C They are less likely to be in love.
D They are officially discouraged from doing so by the government.
Question #8
A blacks are given equal treatment by the U.S. justice system.
B the criminal justice system has a racial bias.
C African Americans commit more murders than other racial or ethnic groups.
D whites are often the victims of reverse discrimination.
Question #9
A population transfer.
B internal colonialism.
C genocide.
D colonialism.
Question #10
A passing
B situational ethnicity
C the disparities in racial consequences
D symbolic ethnicity
Question #11
A Race is not a side effect of class; rather, it permeates every aspect of daily life.
B Both race and class are created by biological factors inherent in being human.
C Race is a secondary phenomenon that results from the class system.
D Class is an unintended consequence of racial hierarchies.
Question #12
A a group that makes up less than 20 percent of the total population
B a group that makes up less than 50 percent of the total population
C a group that is smaller than the dominant group
D a group whose members suffer from unequal treatment
Question #13
A biological differences, as different races have radically different hormones
B greatly increased levels of law enforcement violence directed at certain racial groups
C disparities in access to health care
D genetic differences resulting in predispositions to various diseases
Question #14
A the difference between Mongoloid, Negroid, and Caucasoid people
B a group with a shared cultural heritage
C the same way they define ethnicity
D a social category based on real or perceived biological differences
Question #15
A a fondue pot
B a melting pot
C a reservation
D a salad bowl
Question #16
A the linguistic barriers that prevent communication
B the assumption that differences between groups are innate, or biologically based
C the need to generate finance capital
D a negative view of a group’s cultural characteristics
Question #17
A the social construction of race
B an enactment of symbolic ethnicity
C racial pluralism
D racial passing
Question #18
A minority
B postmodern
C pluralistic
D majority-minority
Question #19
A the slaughter of the Tutsis in Rwanda
B the death of 6 million Jews in Europe during World War II
C the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by the Turkish government after World War I
D attacks on ethnic minorities in the Darfur region of Sudan
Question #20
A Prejudice and discrimination are perpetuated by economic, not racial, factors.
B Prejudice and discrimination help to increase group cohesion.
C Prejudice and discrimination are the result of a struggle for scarce resources.
D Prejudice and discrimination are established on an international level.
Question #21
A listen to the right kind of music
B set his or her avatar or picture to look like a cartoon
C be able to include racially relevant content and language in interactions
D It is almost impossible, as no one trusts anything he or she encounters on the Internet.
Question #22
A ethnic conflict.
B internal colonialism.
C population transfer.
D racial assimilation.
Question #23
A a group with a shared ancestry or shared cultural heritage
B people who share a common physical characteristic
C the same way they define race
D people with the same skin color
Question #24
A racial assimilation.
B cultural appropriation.
C race consciousness.
D miscegenation.
Question #25
A It leads to overt discriminatory lending in home mortgages, resulting in unequal accumulation of wealth by racial minorities.
B It encourages moderate prejudice and discrimination in the system of education.
C It serves to maintain high levels of acceptable discriminatory practices in the workplace.
D It perpetuates racial inequalities by making subtle forms of racism difficult to recognize and therefore difficult to address.
Question #26
A posing.
B symbolic ethnicity.
C disembodied identities.
D situational ethnicity.
Question #27
A thinking that African Americans are better dancers than white people
B believing that the Irish drink too much
C believing Asians are good at math
D refusing to sell someone a house in a particular neighborhood because of his or her race
Question #28
A racial passing
B situational ethnicity
C symbolic ethnicity
D the social construction of race
Question #29
A hegemony
B passing
C individual discrimination
D reverse discrimination
Question #30
A Such beliefs justify social arrangements between dominant and minority groups that benefit those who accept them.
B People knew much less about world history then, so it seemed more plausible.
C People are, by nature, hostile and look to blame their problems on others.
D Nineteenth-century science was not very well developed, so no authority figures could debunk racist beliefs.